West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-06-30
VHB NEWS IN BRIEF.
Eastern and Middle state.


REV FATHER MICHAEL, principal OF
Catholic College was struck 10y a train and
killed at Olcan, y "
john EN0BERG, a young printer OF Brook
lNn, \. y, wound up n protuCted sprVe by
shooting his widowed mother and then him
SELF, both wounds being fatal He expressed
k'eat satisfaction at having committed the
unnStural crime
CHARLES ALDEN, seventy years old the
inventor Of milk .CundvnSlug fruit eVapOr
hung and other processes committed suicide
nt randolph, Mass, 10y shooting himself. lie
was temporarily insane
FIVE men wero buried under "a sand bank
at Erie, Penn. Two We're killed
SrRoKE OF lightning fatally injured two
gypsy girls while sitting under IA tree at
Reading Penn.
4 FAMILY Of five persons was made IN at
Philadelphia hy eating canned salmon and
alarming revelations have been made in con
ncCtiOn with dcleterious ingredients used bV
bakers and conteCtiuncrs in that city, from
which several deaths have recently oCCurrcd
BN the upsetting of the barge H. II Walter
ON Lake Erie during cyclone eight persons
lost their lives
DANIEL Pratt, crank, known all over the
country 10y the title. "The Great American
/ traveller, of which hc was very proud, died IA
few days since i'm Boston hospital He had
led wandering life FOR many years.
IT took large police force To quel "A dis
turbance around Faneuil Hall, Boston, in
which British Americans were holding "A
jubilee banquet against the protests OF Irish.
! Americans Permission To use the hall had
been granted 10y the Board OF Aldermen
FIVE men were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion OF fire damp in Scranton coliery.
BmTIsH-B BORN residents OF New York cele-
| brated Queen Nictori0s Jubilee 10y speeches
and music in the Metropolitan Opera House
and fireworks ON Staten island Irishmen
| and women opposed 10 the Jubilee held a
crowded meeting i'm Cooper Union "to com
memoiatc the dead of the Irish race who
! have persisted on the SCatlold and in the Irish
| dungeon, and by famine aud eviction during
the iiity years Of NctOrias miSrulen
! TIIE first surprise I'm Jacob Sharp's tria
| was the appearance ON the witness stand of w
! II. Miller one of the New York Aldermen OF
| 1884, under Indictment Miller. testified for
/ the people, aud told how ne had received
! 5000 from Doodle Alderman De Incy.
! now IN Canada, but had suspected the source,
! and returned the money to De Lacy. Other
| evidence was also given tending Co show
Sharps intimacy with the "Boodie" Alder
! man
THE Army OF the Potomac Veterans have
! been holding their annual reunion at Snrn-
| toga RESOLUTIONS were presented by General
| ID. Il. Sickles and adopted that the next an
| nual meeting be held Rt Gettysburg, July l.
, and 3, 1885, and that the survivors of the
! Army OF Northern Virginia be invited o.
| meet with the society. General J. g. Robin
! son, OF New York, was elected president and
an Grafton delivered 10y Chauncey NJ. De
! pew.
! MOSES j. SPEIGHTs, a fifteen year old in.
| mate of the House of Refuge for Juvenile De
| hnquent, ON Randnlls Island at New York
| Killed Waterman Cole with baseball bat In
an unsuccessful attempt to escape.
! THE collapse in the coffee and wheat deals
| has been followed by bear raid on the
| New York Stock market, Manhattan Ele.
! waited stock tunblng forty one points I'm "A few
| minutes and other stocks all reaching lower
hgures Great excitement prevailed for q
while on Wall street
! THE Reading PENN Iron Works, employ.
| ing 1000 hands, have been closed The en-
! ployes refused IA contemplated reduction OF
| ten per cent in their wages
Mrs. JoHN Lyons, aged forty years. com
! mtted suicide az Amsterdam, n. Y. by plung
! ing head foremost into "a barrel OF water
| RESIDENTS Of part Of Shenandoah, Penn.
have been much alarmed by the subsistence OF
the ground on which their houses stood.